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Juncker: EU will react 'appropriately, within days' should 232 steel measures hit Europe

July 7, 2017 at 7:26 AM
HAMBURG – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday that the European Union is ready to react quickly and with appropriate countermeasures should a U.S. Section 232 investigation result in quotas or tariffs against imports of European steel. “We're hearing that some are considering imposing restrictions on steel imports in the near future,” Juncker said at a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, without mentioning the U.S. “Should this happen, the EU will know how...


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